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-This summer in Lausanne,

 

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a man shoots up in front of a child.

 

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People taking drugs

in the street.

 

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-The scene is filmed

by a passer-by near the station.

 

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Place de la Riponne,

same vision.

 

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These images shock

even former users,

 

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like José, a regular visitor.

 

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-It's getting worse and worse.

 

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People used to hide.

 

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They'd go into the forest,

behind low walls...

 

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Now they're shooting up here.

 

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The police see and say nothing;

what do you want to do?

 

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-Down below,

the toilets are inaccessible,

 

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now squatted

by drug dealers and addicts.

 

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-I've already seen nine people

coming out of a toilet.

 

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They shoot up, they smoke...

 

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-A few meters away,

on the other side of the road,

 

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Place de la Grenette.

 

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Here you'll find a recreational area

and a bar.

 

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And Céline, who, like José,

knows the place by heart.

 

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A former homeless woman

defending her territory.

 

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-This is Grenette.

 

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This is a square in its own right,

there's a border, the road.

 

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Then you have Riponne.

 

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Here you'll find beer-drinkers

and pot smokers.

 

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Over there, it's different:

it's hard drugs.

 

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And fuck off, you shit, fuck off!

 

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-José has been working at this daycare

for nine years.

 

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A place that made the bet

 

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of cohabitation

with the most marginalized.

 

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-I'm doing the interview.

 

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-Tox doesn't scare him.

 

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-I know them all.

 

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I was in them.

 

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I never shot up,

but I used to take drugs.

 

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Then I stopped

and took this job here.

 

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They don't come here during the day

when the kids are here.

 

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They stand aside.

 

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-Are you proud of this place?

 

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-Yes, very proud!

 

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-José is an employee of La Grenette,

civil servant.

 

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Like Céline, who cleans

the windows every morning

 

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and picks up needles and

syringes with a magnet.

 

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-It's hidden in the edges,

it's rare for it to be in the middle.

 

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They're often there.

 

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-Doesn't it make you sad

looking for needles?

 

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-No, it makes me feel better that there aren't any.

 

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When I found a lot,

 

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I wasn't happy about it,

 

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it made me angry.

 

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Now that I can't find any,

it makes me happy.

 

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I don't mind passing

a magnet for nothing.

 

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I'd rather pass it for nothing.

 

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You see, there are people

who have taken coke here...

 

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In my basket, I have newspapers,

bottoms of cans,

 

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there's nothing today.

 

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Voilà, clean garden!

 

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-Hi, Céline!

-Michèle, how are you?

 

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-Michèle is the manager

of the Grenette,

 

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used to close proximity

with the drug addicts at La Riponne.

 

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But she sees changes.

 

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-There's still something

 

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a little more relaxed.

 

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It existed, but it was more hidden.

 

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-Does it worry you

about the Grenette?

 

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-I'm not worried at all.

 

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Thanks to the team and the relationships

I have with the people in the square,

 

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like Céline, José and others,

I'm pretty relaxed.

 

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If something were to happen

that I don't see,

 

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they see it,

because they're there all the time.

 

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And they're going to intervene.

 

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-The opening of an injection room

in these empty arcades,

 

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near the day-care center,

by the end of 2023, doesn't panic her.

 

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-That makes me feel better.

 

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What takes place outdoors can be done

under better conditions

 

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and out of sight of the population

not just children.

 

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The children are caught

in their games.

 

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It's more the adults

who are freaked out

 

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when they see what's going on

at the Riponne.

 

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-Hello, how are you?

 

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-Isn't this yours?

 

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-The authorities are worried.

 

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The city has decided to step up

police presence,

 

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with joint patrols

with social workers.

 

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Social and security work

together to prevent

 

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the situation from getting out of hand;

a first.

 

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-Messages must be the same

 

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on the social side and on the police side.

 

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That's the point of these mixed teams:

to have one speech

 

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on behavior we don't want to see

in the public space.

 

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-We're in the midst of a change

 

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of paradigm.

 

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We want to accompany people,

 

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help them gain access

and care,

 

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but we want the rules

public space to be respected.

 

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This is where we get

teams work together.

 

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-But Lausanne is not

the only city affected.

 

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Geneva, Zurich, Basel, Chur...

 

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Everywhere, open scenes

are re-emerging.

 

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All the more reason to question

drug policy,

 

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which, until now, has been the pride

of the country, according to Addiction Suisse.

 

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-In 10 years, I've never seen

 

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such an evolution

 

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like this summer.

 

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Until now, it was the cities

that had problems

 

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of drug consumption or

in the public space.

 

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At this point, the whole of Switzerland

this phenomenon.

 

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We're witnessing something

that calls for readjustment

 

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of Swiss drug policy.

 

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The fact that it appears

at the same time in all these places

 

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indicates that something

going on,

 

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linked in particular to the availability

of cocaine in Europe.

 

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-The fact remains that, for him, this is a far cry

traumatic scenes

 

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of the late 1980s.

 

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He doesn't believe in the resurgence

of the Platzspitz or Letten.

 

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-I don't think so,

 

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because you recognize

these situations.

 

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Everyone is talking

about this situation,

 

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so we're not burying

our heads in the sand.

 

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In every city,

measures are being prepared for action.

 

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-In Geneva too, the authorities

are also at fault.

 

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A "crack plan" was to be

announced this week.

 

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The press conference

has been cancelled

 

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due to political quarrels.

 

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The citizens of both

Grottes or Pâquis, will wait.

 

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But local residents

can't take it anymore.

 

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The residents of Pâquis have filed

an umpteenth petition.

 

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This map summarizes their situation:

 

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schools with, around,

deal points.

 

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More than 500 students surrounded

by drug dealers.

 

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They feel

abandoned.

 

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-It's getting harder and harder

 

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to understand the lack of will

 

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to move this deal zone.

 

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Deal zones such as the Jardin anglais

or the train station, have been moved.

 

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Here, it's not done.

 

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We ask that there be no more

around elementary school.

 

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It's not an unreasonable request.

 

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-It's not legal, but it goes on.

 

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Because it's been ten years,

 

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it looks like it's accepted,

that we'll let it go.

 

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It's part of local tourism.

 

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-For these mothers, it's not always easy

to find the right words

 

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to talk to their children.

 

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And to cultivate nuance.

 

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-It's becoming a game:

 

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how many dealers

 

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are we going to find at the intersection?

 

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There were 22 today,

now only six... Six too many!

 

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It's not normal to have

these conversations with our children,

 

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at that age.

 

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But we try to have them,

 

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so as not to create prejudices

in our children.

 

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We don't want our children to think

that the deal is done

 

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by a certain population.

 

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-This is what these people

are faced with on a daily basis.

 

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Consumers

waiting for their fix.

 

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Dealers lurking.

 

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Police sometimes present,

but powerless,

 

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even in the face of parents complaining

about a shooting scene.

 

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-They're getting high now!

 

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-Yes, we'll call a patrol.

 

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-Right there, in the courtyard, behind the buildings...

 

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-Let's go, come on!

 

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-How are you feeling?

 

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-I know...I...

 

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I never consume in front of the children.

 

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When the children came by, I hid everything and waited...

 

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I stopped using when the children passed.

 

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Because it's not normal, it's not something positive, something good.

 

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Madam, I tell you, I didn't grow up in the street... I have to get out of that...

 

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It's not for me.

 

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I hope that my mother doesn't know that I use drugs.

 

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Otherwise she’ll die straight away.

 

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My mother didn't raise me like that, she didn't raise me for that.

 

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-Shame, anger, pain mostly.

 

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Faced with this situation,

everyone suffers and hopes.